Test 11 · ★★ · Writing to inform, instruct and persuade
Which is the best headline for the fire drill report?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: best headline
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 44 «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 headline | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 headline | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 headline | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 headline | amod |
| 5 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 report | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 report | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drill | compound |
| 9 | drill | drill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 report | compound |
| 10 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 headline | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 headline | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best headline | for the drill report | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Pupils Out in Two Minutes as Alarm Sounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Out | nsubj |
| 2 | Out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Minutes | case |
| 4 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Minutes | nummod |
| 5 | Minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Out | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 Sounds | case |
| 7 | Alarm | Alarm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sounds | compound |
| 8 | Sounds | Sound | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Out | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
My Diary: Tuesday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Diary | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Diary | Diary | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tuesday | punct |
| 4 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Diary | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
How to Make a Fire Alarm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 Make | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 Make | mark |
| 3 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Alarm | det |
| 5 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Alarm | compound |
| 6 | Alarm | Alarm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | a Fire Alarm | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset alarm=Product |
Option 4
It Was a Day at School and Things Happened
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Day | nsubj |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Day | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Day | det |
| 4 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Happened | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 School | case |
| 6 | School | School | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Day | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Things | cc |
| 8 | Things | Thing | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 School | conj |
| 9 | Happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a Day | School and Things | tree rules | |||
| 2 | happen | past | a Day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/t11/